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Public release date 21-July, 2005 Source: BBC News by Steven Shukor An insomniac’s quest for sleep: Sleeping in the sticky, summer heat is trouble enough for most, but for the 10 million people in the UK affected by insomnia it is even harder. Here one woman who has struggled with sleep for years tells how […]

Public release date 21-July, 2005

Source: BBC News by Steven Shukor

An insomniac’s quest for sleep:

Sleeping in the sticky, summer heat is trouble enough for most, but for the 10 million people in the UK affected by insomnia it is even harder. Here one woman who has struggled with sleep for years tells how she copes with sleepless nights.

It was while lying awake one night, after three days without sleep, that Anna Musgrave considered her most extreme option.

No sleep for days on end had become a bit of a routine. Usually by day three her body was so exhausted that sleep came, but not on this occasion.

She nudged her boyfriend in a discreet attempt to wake him. She could no longer bear being awake. The herbal teas, the pills, were not working. She was desperate.

“He offered to punch me out and I remember thinking that wouldn’t be such a bad idea,” she says.

Anna, 28, from Bere Ferrers, in Devon, has suffered from sleeping problems since the age of six. It is something that runs in her family and she believes it is partly down to them moving around a lot when she was young.

‘Vicious circle’

One Christmas she remembers her excitement being shattered after being told Father Christmas didn’t visit children who were not asleep by midnight.

“My main problem is anxiety around sleep, not sleep itself,” says Anna. “I have an emotional reaction to being woken up.”

It’s one of anger and desperation because she then panics she will not be able to fall asleep again. Noise, pressure at work and personal problems are the main factors which have disrupted her sleep throughout her adult life.

SLEEPING TIPS

Go to bed at the same time each night

Avoid having a TV in the bedroom

Get moderate exercise daily

Try a milky drink before bed

Avoid too much alcohol

Avoid eating or drinking a lot late at night

Try relaxing with yoga, hypnosis or listening to music

Professor David Oakley, a clinical psychologist and director of the hypnosis unit at University College London (UCL), says in such circumstances the less you sleep, the more anxious you become.

“Not managing to sleep becomes something of a habit,” he says. “It raises your anxiety and evolves into a vicious circle.”

There are more than 80 recognised sleep problems, with insomnia – the inability to get to sleep or stay asleep once you’ve dropped off – being one of the most common. An estimated 10 million people in the UK are affected by it.

Anna’s worst bout of insomnia was when she was working as an English teacher in Puebla, eastern Mexico. She describes the feeling of going days without sleep as similar to a hangover.

“It’s horrible. I would go into auto-pilot. I was operating on nervous energy. You feel queasy. I wouldn’t feel sleepy. Your only desire is to see the day through.”

If she couldn’t fall asleep on the third night, she felt like she was going mad.

“It’s really maddening not being able to sleep when the person next to you is sleeping soundly. I would generally be wide awake, alert, really keyed up.”

Dependency

She reached for so-called “soft” sleeping aids, such as the herbal remedy Valerian, Nightol and antihistamines. But she also developed a routine aimed at relaxing herself before sleep, keeping to a regular bedtime, drinking herbal tea and reading.

But when even double doses started to lose their effect Anna turned to the cold and flu remedy Night Nurse. She developed a mild dependency on it for several years and says she would rely on it to sleep during acute periods of stress.

“I remember thinking ‘oh good I’ve got a cold coming’, I can take Night Nurse,” she says. “People who clearly didn’t suffer from insomnia looked at me as if I was a drug addict.”

Last year she decided she no longer wanted to rely on pills or Night Nurse for sleep and, like some of the millions who suffer from insomnia, decided to become “more creative” about sleep aids.

“The outside world continues to fade more and more into the background as you continue your journey into your own inner world to that unique a special part of you that only you can go to…

Extract from Glenn Harrold’s sleep hypnosis CD (Deep Sleep)

Acupuncture yielded good results at first but, as with everything else she has tried, it lost its effect before long. She turned to the web to research hypnosis, and tried hypnotherapy audio books.

Initially these have given her some satisfaction.

One CD, by hypnotherapist Glenn Harrold, consists of a carefully narrated script, gentle synthetic music, and sound effects – all attempting to relax the listener in bed.

“The aim is to slow down the listener’s thoughts and body machinery,” says Harrold, who is based in Maidstone, Kent.

Once the listener is in a relaxed state, he gives them hypnotic suggestions such as “as soon as your head touches the pillow at night, you will feel sleepy”. The listener is asked to repeat certain phrases like “I feel safe and secure at night” and “I continue to sleep well at night”.

“I get them to draw these affirmations inside of them. It has a hypnotic effect,” he says.

These suggestions are designed to become cue words for the listener, who after repeated listening, should respond to them automatically. The more you hear the book, the more effective it is.

The acid test came a few weeks ago when Anna – a charity worker – organised a week-long general assembly for Peace Brigades International. It was a high-pressure project involving long hours and little sleep, so it was essential that she slept soundly when she did get to bed.

“The effects weren’t instant because of the buzz of trying something new. But since then it has worked. The major change is how I react to being woken up.

“I wake up but I don’t have all the anxiety, anger or tension I used to feel. I just go back to sleep again. I haven’t taken Night Nurse in three months. That’s unheard of for me.”

As with everything else Anna has tried, she fears the hypnosis CD’s effects will wear off over time. But hypnotherapy may offer her future options…

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Public release date 13-Mar, 2005 By Bethany Carson – H&R Staff Writer Having a baby? RELAX: HypnoBirthing teaches that natural childbirth need not be painful DECATUR – Seeing pets give birth without as much as a wince always mystified Clatie Fischer. The Bloomington mother was skeptical that it was possible for humans to give birth […]

Public release date 13-Mar, 2005

By Bethany Carson – H&R Staff Writer

Having a baby?

RELAX: HypnoBirthing teaches that natural childbirth need not be painful

DECATUR – Seeing pets give birth without as much as a wince always mystified Clatie Fischer.

The Bloomington mother was skeptical that it was possible for humans to give birth without feeling pain, but she never felt comfortable taking medication.

So, during her second birth, she didn’t.

Instead, she used self-hypnosis, which she learned from taking a HypnoBirthing class taught by a Decatur mother of two, Cynthia Grgurich.

“The whole idea is pretty new to this area,” said Grgurich, who offered her first HypnoBirthing class in 2002. “It’s a new twist on a very, very old way of thinking.”

Marie Mongan developed the program in 1989 based on the ideals of obstetrician Dr. Grantly Dick-Read, author of “Childbirth Without Fear” that originally was published in 1933.

HypnoBirthing reinforces the theory natural childbirth does not equal pain.

“Fear of birthing is something that’s been bestowed on women,” Grgurich said. “Fear causes pain, which causes tension, which causes problems with birthing.”

It’s called “tension-pain syndrome.”

She said the uterus and the cervix open up the way they’re supposed to when the woman relaxes.

That’s where hypnosis comes in.

“When we’re deeply relaxed, our subconscious is more able to take suggestion,” Grgurich said.

“All hypnosis is self-hypnosis,” she said. “You’re always in control.”

During birth, it’s the conscious mind that allows the woman to trust her body and let the subconscious mind direct her in natural childbirth.

“You focus on your body, on what’s going on with you and your baby, versus focusing on something else,” Grgurich said.

The Streator resident drives an hour and a half with her husband, Mike, to absorb the message that giving birth doesn’t have to be painful, contradicting the warnings from her friends who have had babies but have never studied HypnoBirthing.

“I’m trying to block all that stuff out and not even consider it because they’ve kind of closed their mind to it,” she said. “They think that I’m just seeing the world through rose-colored glasses.”

With 13 weeks left in her pregnancy, she said the classes have been worth the effort.

“The class helps ease those fears,” she said. “Your body’s going to do what your body was meant to do, and it shouldn’t be painful or scary.”

Yet, she said, deep relaxation takes practice.

Grgurich said self-hypnosis is not as foreign as it initially sounds.

“We all go into and out of hypnosis daily, about every 90 minutes,” she said.

Fischer, the Bloomington mother of two, compared self-hypnosis to driving a car without remembering the drive.

“You don’t remember details, but somehow your body automatically does what it has to do,” Fischer said.

She gave birth to her second child with HypnoBirthing a year and a half ago.

Grgurich said her role is to help parents make decisions when dealing with the medical community.

That lesson pleased Fischer, who always thought her mind is the strongest part of her.

“There doesn’t have to be pain,” she said. “You get to choose the sensation you feel.”

She chose to feel pressure.

“It was like pushing a piano up hill,” she said. “It was hard work, but it wasn’t unpleasant.”

When she felt a contraction, which HypnoBirthing students call a surge, she asked her husband to “do the arm thing.”

Grgurich teaches the companions to run the back of their fingertips along the woman’s skin.

She said her favorite part is watching couples work together toward a peaceful birth, producing a loving atmosphere.

“The husbands are so attentive,” she said smiling, “and it’s such a sincere attentiveness.”

Martha Aldridge, formerly of Mount Zion, said HypnoBirthing allowed her to feel more in tune with her husband, Shayne, during her second birth at St. John’s Hospital two-and-a-half years ago.

She said she felt unprepared with Lamaze classes during her first pregnancy, leading her to feel tense and untouchable when she went into labor.

“I did not want anybody close to me, including my husband,” she said.

The second time around was much different.

The couple drafted a birthing plan they learned about in HypnoBirthing class. They made each nurse or physician read the plan as soon as they walked into the room so they each knew she did not want to be asked to rate her pain.

“I wasn’t going to feel pain, so I didn’t want them asking about pain,” she said.

She also didn’t want to be connected to the monitor the entire time because she said the constant beeping would have taken away from her concentration and relaxation.

Her husband’s touch, on the other hand, kept her relaxed.

“We were very connected,” she said. “He was in tune with what I wanted and what I needed. In fact, we had some form of physical contact almost the entire time.”

He also repeated reaffirming phrases to help her stay focused.

When three hours seemed like 10 minutes, the self-described skeptic felt convinced.

“I was skeptical the minute we stepped into the hospital,” she said. “I said, ‘If I’m going to go through this and not feel pain, I’m going to be very surprised.’ And I was.”

Her physician, Dr. Angela Anderson, agreed.

“She had what she would describe – and I would have to agree with her – basically a pain-free labor,” Anderson said. “She was quiet as a mouse. She was so relaxed. She just progressed so quickly,”

One claim of HypnoBirthing is that the relaxation technique will allow the cervix to dilate faster.

Aldridge said it took only seven minutes from the time her water broke to the time her baby delivered himself.

“I had no choice in this situation,” she said. “I was so relaxed. The nurse commented after the fact, literally, the baby was born on his own.”

Anderson said while epidurals are safe and about 90 percent of patients in labor receive them, she called HypnoBirthing “harmless.”

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Public release date: 2-Feb-2007 (CBS 11 News) DALLAS It’s a crime fighting tool that’s often kept a secret. It’s called forensic or investigative hypnosis, and Dallas Police use it to spur the memory of a crime victim or witness. When you think of hypnosis images of snapping fingers and a room lit by candles may […]

It’s called forensic or investigative hypnosis, and Dallas Police use it to spur the memory of a crime victim or witness.

When you think of hypnosis images of snapping fingers and a room lit by candles may come to mind, but you might want to think trained detectives instead.

“Forensic hypnosis is a much different twist,” said Dallas Police Detective B. J. Watkins. “Forensic hypnosis is nothing more than memory refreshing.”

Dallas police have been using hypnosis for more than 20 years to help solve cases.

“It’s nothing more than getting the person to relax and maybe to bring some things into the conscience realm that they have either repressed because of the trauma, or the stress or it’s something that they didn’t know they saw or heard,” Detective Watkins said.

He also said there’s no magic moment in the session. “If it’s not there, we can’t put it there. We don’t do suggestions in forensic psychology.”

Instead, it serves to give officers leads. “Normally it’s for someone who’s repressed what someone looks like, or it was a very quick look or it was the license plate of a vehicle driving away,” Watckins said.

Tom Pelt is a hypno-therapist. He says he’s used hypnosis to help hundreds of people quit smoking, lose weight and enhance their memories.

“If we could use and access our subconscious minds like we should be able to, you would be amazed at what we have stored up there,” Pelt said.

Detective Watkins says many times what’s store up there is the missing piece of evidence to close a cold case.

“Timing is everything. There are a lot of factors that go into that, the type of crime, the length of time, the person’s involvement,” said Watkins. “We don’t use it a lot. It’s not the answer for everything, but occasionally it does come in handy.

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Public release date: 10-Jan-2007 From the British Psychological Society Self-hypnosis could be the way for young people to overcome their problems with anxiety and depression. David Byron, the senior specialist educational psychologist for Hampshire County Council, revealed the success of an innovative hypnotherapy project on Thursday 4 January 2007, at the British Psychological Society’s Division […]

Public release date: 10-Jan-2007

From the British Psychological Society

Self-hypnosis could be the way for young people to overcome their problems with anxiety and depression.

David Byron, the senior specialist educational psychologist for Hampshire County Council, revealed the success of an innovative hypnotherapy project on Thursday 4 January 2007, at the British Psychological Society’s Division of Educational and Child Psychology Annual Conference.

The Hampshire Hypnotherapy Project, which combines applied psychology with hypnotherapy, has been the focus of doctoral research at UCL and been operating for six years for secondary school pupils who have anxiety related problems. These problems are affecting their social-emotional well-being and educational progress and frequently disrupt school attendance and home life.

Mr Byron studied ten pupils who had undergone the hypnotherapy and ten pupils who were being taught more traditional relaxation techniques. He found that both approaches helped to reduce anxiety but that the hypnotherapy seemed to produce greater gains, with additional reductions in hopelessness and an improvement in self-esteem.

Things also seemed to improve in subsequent months and there was also a high level of parent satisfaction, with one parent observing “thank you for giving me my son back.”

The sessions work by seeing the student and the parent together. The student sets a number of things they would like to change to make their lives better. Each student then receives about four sessions where they are taught how to self hypnotise and work on these targets. The students then receive three follow up visits for six months.

Mr Byron said: “It seems to empower the students’ to change their lives and it’s not me doing it, it’s them. I’m just showing them how to do it.”

Interestingly, when the students’ teachers were asked for their observations on the students after the intervention they said they saw more change with the students using the relaxation techniques. But Mr Byron speculates this may be because these changes are more physical, while the hypnotherapy produces cognitive and emotional changes. He added: “I think there was a direct contrast between the pupils and parents observations with those of the teachers because the teachers have less time to become aware of the changes going on inside the pupils minds, especially in the teenage years.”

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Public release date: 8-Feb-2006 By Laura Oates, CBS 11 News Reporter Eating healthy is a good start if you’re trying to lose weight. But could hypnosis be another powerful tool? Doctors across the country are using it more and more to help people lose weight. Beth Fredericks’s story is a familiar one. She was 30 […]

Public release date: 8-Feb-2006

By Laura Oates, CBS 11 News Reporter

Eating healthy is a good start if you’re trying to lose weight. But could hypnosis be another powerful tool? Doctors across the country are using it more and more to help people lose weight.

Beth Fredericks’s story is a familiar one. She was 30 pounds overweight and tried every diet under the sun.

“I look at fruits and vegetables more. They are much more appealing to me,” said Fredericks.

And this isn’t hocus-pocus. Studies have shown, when used by a trained therapist, hypnosis can help patients lose weight and keep it off.

Fain teaches other psychotherapists at the Cambridge Health Alliance in Boston. She says hypnosis is only part of the ongoing therapy. The other part is helping a patient understand why they’re overeating.

“The most important first lesson is learning that it’s not an instant cure–that they have some responsibility for their change,” said Jean Fain, Harvard Medical School.

Fredericks believes the conscious therapy helps her learn how much to eat, while the subconscious suggestions help her make good choices.

“The suggestion is in my head. I don’t have to do it so much, it’s kind of automatic,” said Fredericks.

As for the results, here’s some food for thought: Fredericks has slowly lost around 15 pounds, and says she never felt like she was on a diet.

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Public release date: 22-Oct-2007 Hypnosis for smoking cessation sees strong results Cardiac patients more motivated to quit smoking than patients with respiratory disease (Chicago, IL, October 22, 2007) – Hospitalized patients who smoke may be more likely to quit smoking through the use of hypnotherapy than patients using other smoking cessation methods. A new study […]

Public release date: 22-Oct-2007

Hypnosis for smoking cessation sees strong results

Cardiac patients more motivated to quit smoking than patients with respiratory disease

(Chicago, IL, October 22, 2007) – Hospitalized patients who smoke may be more likely to quit smoking through the use of hypnotherapy than patients using other smoking cessation methods. A new study presented at CHEST 2007, the 73rd annual international scientific assembly of the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP), shows that smoking patients who participated in one hypnotherapy session were more likely to be nonsmokers at 6 months compared with patients using nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) alone or patients who quit “cold turkey”. The study also shows that patients admitted to the hospital with a cardiac diagnosis are three times more likely to quit smoking at 6 months than patients admitted with a pulmonary diagnosis.

“Our results showed that hypnotherapy resulted in higher quit rates compared with NRT alone,” said Faysal Hasan, MD, FCCP, North Shore Medical Center, Salem, MA. “Hypnotherapy appears to be quite effective and a good modality to incorporate into a smoking cessation program after hospital discharge.”

Dr. Hasan and colleagues from North Shore Medical Center and Massachusetts General Hospital compared the quit rates of 67 smoking patients hospitalized with a cardiopulmonary diagnosis. All patients were approached about smoking cessation and all included in the study were patients who expressed a desire to quit smoking. At discharge, patients were divided into four groups based on their preferred method of smoking cessation treatment: hypnotherapy (n=14), NRT (n=19), NRT and hypnotherapy (n=18), and a group of controls who preferred to quit “cold turkey” (n=16). All patients received self-help brochures. The control group received brief counseling, but other groups received intensive counseling, free supply of NRT and/or a free hypnotherapy session within 7 days of discharge, as well as follow up telephone calls at 1, 2, 4, 8, 12, and 26 weeks after discharge. Patients receiving hypnotherapy also were taught to do self-hypnosis and were given tapes to play at the end of the session.

At 26 weeks after discharge, 50 percent of patients treated with hypnotherapy alone were nonsmokers, compared with 50 percent in the NRT/hypnotherapy group, 25 percent in the control group, and 15.78 percent in the NRT group. Patients admitted with a cardiac diagnosis were more likely to quit smoking at 26 weeks (45.5 percent) than patients admitted with a pulmonary diagnosis (15.63 percent).

“Patients admitted with coronary symptoms may have experienced ‘fear and doom’ and decided to alter a major health risk to their disease when approached about smoking cessation,” said Dr. Hasan. “In contrast, pulmonary patients admitted for another exacerbation may not have felt the same threat. They likely felt they can live for another day and continue the smoking habit.”

The researchers note that hospitalization is an important opportunity to intervene among patients who smoke.

“Doctors and other health personnel should use this occasion to firmly recommend smoking cessation and emphasize the impact of smoking on their disease process and hospital admission,” said Dr. Hasan. “Pulmonologists, in particular, should make a stronger case and more passionate message to their patients, and efforts should be coordinated with counseling.”

“As physicians, we are constantly reviewing new approaches for smoking cessation and revisiting existing approaches to confirm their effectiveness,” said Alvin V. Thomas, MD, FCCP, President of the American College of Chest Physicians. “The results of this study and many others confirm that using a multimodality approach to smoking cessation is optimal for success.”

CHEST 2007 is the 73rd annual international scientific assembly of the American College of Chest Physicians, held October 20-25 in Chicago, IL. ACCP represents 17,000 members who provide patient care in the areas of pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine in the United States and throughout the world. The ACCP’s mission is to promote the prevention and treatment of diseases of the chest through leadership, education, research, and communication. For more information about the ACCP, please visit the ACCP Web site at www.chestnet.org .

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Public release date: 2-Dec-2007 Tonsils were removed under hypnosis Susan Cilliers, Beeld Johannesburg – A woman’s tonsils were removed under hypnosis and without painkillers or anaesthetics at Milpark Hospital last week. Liesl van Dreau, 35, from Pretoria was able to eat normally almost immediately after surgery and she recovered so quickly that she was back […]

Public release date: 2-Dec-2007

Tonsils were removed under hypnosis

Susan Cilliers, Beeld

Johannesburg – A woman’s tonsils were removed under hypnosis and without painkillers or anaesthetics at Milpark Hospital last week.

Liesl van Dreau, 35, from Pretoria was able to eat normally almost immediately after surgery and she recovered so quickly that she was back at work three days later. She didn’t use antibiotics or anti-inflammatory tablets and had almost no swelling.

“I had a sensation of pulling during surgery, but felt very little pain,” she said.

The surgeon, Dr Kishen Dayal, said there was so little bleeding that he used only half a swab to dab the blood.

“It’s the first time I removed tonsils under hypnosis and I was amazed at the result. This opens the way to a range of possibilities, such as doing biopsies under hypnosis in the doctor’s rooms rather than an operating theatre. This will save theatre costs and minimise bleeding and the side-effects of drugs.”

Initial caution

Van Dreau, who works at a publisher, was initially cautious about having her tonsils removed under hypnosis. She is doing a course in hypnotherapy, where she met Dr Ian Lander, an anaesthetist from Milpark Hospital, who also did the course.

Lander asked if Dayal would be willing to remove Van Dreau’s tonsils under hypnosis.

“I was doubtful, but agreed to consult with her. After examining her, I decided to go ahead using specific surgical instruments which would minimise bleeding,” Dayal said.

Before surgery Van Dreau had two sessions with Johannesburg hypnotherapist Tom Budge to prepare her.

The procedure was done in a theatre and Van Dreau’s condition was monitored throughout in order to apply anaesthetics should it be necessary.

Drank Coke in the recovery room

“It took Tom six minutes to put me under hypnosis. During the 30 minutes of surgery, he told me that I could control the bleeding, that I would not feel any pain and that I was doing well. Afterwards, the whole theatre team applauded.”

Dayal said it was the first time he witnessed an adult tonsil patient drinking Coke in the recovery room.

Van Dreau was discharged from hospital an hour later – after a procedure which is usually very painful and traumatic for adults.

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